{"id":266,"date":"2011-07-02T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T12:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-investment-in-education-investing-in-future\/"},"modified":"2011-07-02T12:47:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T12:47:26","slug":"crowe-investment-in-education-investing-in-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-investment-in-education-investing-in-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe – Investment in Education Investing in Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crowe<\/span> –\u00a0Investment in Education Investing in\u00a0Future <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s D\u00e1il\u00a0Education Spokesperson\u00a0 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe<\/span>, has\u00a0met with officials\u2019 from the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland, (ASTI) including The Union\u2019s Assistant General Secretary, Moira Leydon, and Diarmaid de Paor, the organisation\u2019s Deputy General Secretary <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Describing the meeting as \u2018 useful and informative,\u2019 the Tallaght based TD said he was determined to meet with as many Organisations and individuals working in the Education Sector as possible in order to ensure the rights and entitlements of teachers and\u00a0students within the Irish school system are maintained and improved.<\/span> <\/p>\n

Deputy Crowe<\/span> said\u00a0\u201cThe meeting with senior personnel from the ASTI was an opportunity for me to hear at\u00a0first-hand some of\u00a0the many challenges and issues facing teachers working in schools across the Irish State.<\/span> <\/p>\n

\u201cThe loss of our economic sovereignty means we face\u00a0increasingly challenging times.<\/span><\/div>\n

There is widespread agreement across civic society that\u00a0if we are to generate future growth then we\u00a0have to\u00a0ensure a high standard of education that will\u00a0produce a highly\u00a0motivated, skilled and capable workforce. <\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The resources available in schools, and the support given to teachers, is central to teaching our children effectively, and\u00a0greater emphasis\u00a0has to involve\u00a0ensuring everyone, regardless of their economic, social or ethnic background has the opportunity to fulfil their academic potential.<\/span> <\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the meeting with the ASTI, a number of issues were discussed, including the Croke Park Deal; further possible cuts in teaching staff and the implications this would have for class sizes; the delivery of key subjects within the school curriculum and the challenges faced by teachers who will be central to implementing any future reforms to the Junior Cert examination.<\/span><\/div>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in shares a lot of commonality with ASTI on many of these issues.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe support the rights\u2019 of children and young people to avail of an inclusive\u00a0well-resourced education system where classroom integration and access to a range of support services are available to assist teachers and their pupils.<\/span> <\/p>\n

\u201cThis Government needs to invest in the State\u2019s education system and prepare today\u2019s young\u00a0students so they are well equipped to enter opportunities in\u00a0the workforce\u00a0while developing their full\u00a0potential.<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
It is essential even\u00a0at this difficult\u00a0economic time that we\u00a0see the roll out\u00a0of a\u00a0progressive education system through the implementation of forward thinking polices.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Investing in\u00a0education,\u00a0school infrastructure, teacher training and the\u00a0resourcing of\u00a0early intervention when a child is identified as having behavioural or learning difficulties makes short,medium and long term sense and will\u00a0repay the investment many times over.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crowe –\u00a0Investment in Education Investing in\u00a0Future Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s D\u00e1il\u00a0Education Spokesperson\u00a0 Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe, has\u00a0met with officials\u2019 from the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland, (ASTI) including The Union\u2019s Assistant General Secretary, Moira Leydon, and Diarmaid de Paor, the organisation\u2019s Deputy General Secretary Describing the meeting as \u2018 useful and informative,\u2019 the Tallaght based TD said he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}